http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23843 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:25:12 GMT 2026-04-09T16:25:12Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84471 Título: Um passado insepulto nas disputas do presente: políticas de memória sobre a Ditadura Civil-militar brasileira (1995-2011) Autor(es): Brito, Tasso Araújo de Abstract: This thesis examines how successive Brazilian federal governments, between 1995 and 2011, engaged with the legacy of human rights violations committed during the Civil- Military Dictatorship (1964–1985). The analysis begins with the enactment of Law 9.140/95, which officially recognized those who were victims of political disappearance as deceased, and extends to the establishment of the National Truth Commission in 2012, which elevated the debate on the memory of the authoritarian regime to a new level. Situated within the field of Contemporary History, the research explores the specificities of Transitional Justice in Brazil, which primarily focused on financial reparations for victims' families while sidelining judicial accountability for repression agents.The study discusses how the Amnesty Law (1979) became an unavoidable framework for state initiatives by preventing criminal and punitive measures for crimes against humanity. The thesis also examines the tensions surrounding the formulation and implementation of these memory policies, including resistance from the Armed Forces, pressure from activists and families for crime investigations and access to secret archives, and demands from conservative sectors seeking equal treatment for deceased military personnel and executed dissidents. Additionally, the strategies of the Workers' Party governments (from 2003 onward) to deepen public debate are evaluated, with emphasis on the Caravanas da Anistia (Amnesty Caravans) and cultural projects promoted by the Amnesty Commission. The conclusion highlights that, despite undeniable progress—such as the state's acknowledgment of responsibility for grave violations and the expansion of the right to memory—the adopted justice model retained significant gaps. The absence of criminal punishment and persistent obstacles to investigations reinforced a form of negotiated forgetting, resulting in an "unfinished transition" that keeps the past alive in political disputes. Thus, the "unburied past" remains a decisive factor in understanding Brazil's democratic crises, demonstrating that conflicts over memory and reparations remain unresolved. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84471 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84349 Título: “Desenterrar ossadas da poeira dos tempos”: sentidos e usos do passado escrito na obra de Airton Maranhão Autor(es): Mendes, Ruan Carlos Abstract: This research aims to analyze the literary writing of Airton Maranhão (1950 – 2015) as a constructor of memories for those and that which is not (in the author's own conception) properly remembered, constituting itself as a writing that formulates meanings for the written past and for the various spatialities that were narrated, thus being a fictional art that desires to be able to "give time to space," since Maranhão's literary work (poems, novels, and chronicles) was dedicated to the city of Russas - CE and its people (living and dead). This study also analyzes Maranhão's relationships (possible tensions or encounters) within the "artistic field," which he helped build and was a part of, and his affiliation with and involvement in memory institutions that brought together intellectuals and artists in the city. It discusses the relationships between fiction, memory, temporality, and spatiality, as well as analyzing how an author is formed within a specific "field." We understand that Maranhão's writing remained "imprisoned" and "exercised" a particular way of "seeing and saying" about "Northeastern culture," or so-called "popular culture." We investigate the uses that Maranhão made, through literature, of the "fantastic/magical" and the folkloric to construct memories for a space. We analyzed why a space, or "reality," needed to be written in this way to be expressed. More than a job, it's an inalienable "mission" for those who are said to be (and also perceive themselves) as bearing the duty of not letting the "dust of the past" cover everything with its cloak of oblivion. In his literary writing, Maranhão primarily worked with absences, absent figures who became present in his narratives and took on the contours of the past. From this study, we understand how this writer constructed new “writing tombs” for the dead who do not want to return (1999), but whose absences need to be inscribed in the time of the living. We investigated how Maranhão's writing has operated "cuts" in time and how it (re)connected them in the literary representation of a space and time of saudade (a feeling of longing or nostalgia). The methodology is based on the analysis of the literary work of the aforementioned writer, but not an analysis with the intention of qualifying the work literarily, but rather to bring literature into thought alongside history, to reflect on how a writer, in "speaking" of the world, is also an "investigator," since we understand literature as a "form of knowledge." The research results indicate that in Maranhão's work, which sought to temporalize his hometown, time and space cannot be thought of as separate from each other, and that between history and literature there is a "porous boundary." Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84349 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/82495 Título: Dinâmica social e identidades transnacionais na África Ocidental: da antiga Senegâmbia aos desafios na fronteira dos estados-nações contemporâneos entre Guiné-Bissau e Senegal (1973-2023) Autor(es): Oliveira, Adilson Victor Abstract: The social dynamics in Casamance and Saint-Domingue are the result of the coexistence of different cultures, religions, and spiritualities within the structures of traditional institutions (ethnic groups) in these territories, which existed long before the colonial presence and the formation of contemporary nation-states, which occurred from the 1960s onward. This historical milestone reconfigured both regions and brought about a new form of social relations, marked by strong state intervention. This change has caused frustration and been marked by strong internal disputes, particularly regarding movements in areas constituted by artificial borders defined by colonization, as traditional institutions claim their heritage based on their histories established since ancient Senegambia. Therefore, this thesis's main objective is to study transnational identities in the postcolonial context in the regions of Casamance-Ziguinchor, in southern Senegal, and Cacheu, through the Saint- Domingue sector, in northern Guinea-Bissau. Thus, we sought to investigate how identities are negotiated and understand the sociocultural and historical relationships and dynamics between these two territories. The methodology used was as follows: on the one hand, bibliographical research, which allowed us to analyze official documents from both countries, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), and others; and on the other, field research, through which we gathered accounts from residents in both regions, government officials, and ECOWAS officials. The findings were important, as they demonstrated the complex situation of the populations living in the border zones between these two countries, who remain unable to move based on their traditional identities due to state control. The conflicts are a consequence of the blockade policy, and even ECOWAS's continued involvement has not had any effect on achieving peaceful solutions. Paths to peace must be found; otherwise, conflicts will continue to occur as long as states fail to recognize the historical legitimacy of these traditional institutions in these territories. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/82495 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/82025 Título: “A gente foi juntando mulheres”: memórias, ativismos e insubmissões de mulheres negras cearenses Autor(es): Nascimento, Maria Yasmim Rodrigues do Abstract: The present research objects to analyze the process of Brazilian black women movements formation in the 80s decade, the same as its performances, goals and participations in the constructions of political projects. Focusing on the activism of Cearenses black women, I seek to perceive how these women were shaping their understanding of feminisms, black feminisms as well as how they insert themselves into the political and theoretical debate of intersectionality. The comprehension of this study also comes from these women passages in mix black organizations in Ceará, realizing, reporting and putting themselves vigilants towards the behavior marked by the misogynism, sexism and patriarchism sometimes from black partners, others during political mobilizations and in the everyday of their institutions. The theoretical reference proposed focus on the contribution of the intellectuals of the black feminist and intersectional fields, making it possible an investigation connected to the black feminine subjectivities, sensitivities and viable racist as well as patriarchal oppressor experiences. I make usage of oral story methodology, a work with semi structured interviews, through an open dialog using components that cross my being as a black woman and do not apart me from the proposed investigation, enabling to extract memories stained by misogynist situations, the same way that they are scared with group achievements and overcoming traumas. Through this research, it was possible to conclude that the antiracist institutions created by black women, only, by example of the Instituto Negra do Ceará and the Grupo de Mulheres Negras do Cariri- Pretas Simoa, are above all an initiative of constant fight in the direction of equity and justice for black women who lived the misogyny in its most vary ways, besides they are the voices of resistance which insist in echo the screams of insubordination and freedom. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/82025 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z